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Not refuting your comment at all, but I just want to point out one thing. If even 1% of a population is bad, 1% of a billion is 10 million. 0.1% is still a mill
by Rotdhizon 8y ago
Not refuting your comment at all, but I just want to point out one thing. If even 1% of a population is bad, 1% of a billion is 10 million. 0.1% is still a million. That's an awful lot of bad people.
- untog 8y agoSure, but if you're talking about bad people in general (i.e. violent criminals), immigrants as a group commit far fewer violent crimes than the rest of the population. There are an awful lot of bad white, Christian people too.
- Rotdhizon 8y agoThis getting downvoted is why HN can be a complete wreck sometimes. My statement has 0 political or religious inclusion, it's simply stating numbers. Sometimes people hate to see the truth.
- arcticbull 8y agoNo, you're getting downvotes from me at least for 'if even 1% of people are terrorists' - great, citation needed. I have zero evidence that 1% of any population are terrorists. This is the stupid Don Jr. 'what if a bowl of skittles had some poisoned skittles would you still eat skittles' line. Without data on percentage of terrorists in the general population it's meaningless. Further, abusive, hardline policies tend to generate more discontent and ill will within a group leading to yet more terrorists. You take a marginal family (one that's not radical but in a region with radicals) and your oppressing power kills off half that family or sends them to the camps because 'terrorism in the area, 1% whatever' I'd imagine you've just radicalized half the city. You're getting downvotes specifically because you have simplified a complex issue down to a root that doesn't line up with our decades of experience with terrorism in the middle east using numbers you made up. This isn't a YouTube comment section.
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